{"id":2309,"date":"2011-07-08T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:25:34","slug":"do-i-make-it-prettier-or-just-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"Do I make it prettier? Or just not."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been wanting to make changes to my blog.\u00a0 I want it to look different.\u00a0 But I can’t seem to figure out how to download a different template.\u00a0 Sadly, I’m not sure\u00a0 my webmaster can or knows how to educate me, either.\u00a0 Sigh. \u00a0 I wanted it to look edgier, spiffier.. different.\u00a0\u00a0 The best I can settle for at this moment is to make it a point to “illustrate” my blog with at least one picture per posting. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You can see how well I’ve managed this!\u00a0 lol.. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mostly because to find an interesting picture, relevant to the post, I have to search and search the internet for it.\u00a0 This is time consuming.\u00a0 Time I don’t really have a lot of! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I ask myself.\u00a0 Why do I blog? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I started blogging because Gina demanded I get my humor online.\u00a0\u00a0 Because I was cracking her up so much when we’d meet every Thursday while our sons attended social skills class (both being Asperger’s).\u00a0 Time has passed since then, our sons don’t attend anymore and getting together with Gina is more difficult that getting together with my #2 favorite .. and trust me that’s difficult!!\u00a0 And I know she’s so busy she’s not even reading my archives of humor.
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I justified blogging by using it as a place to hone\u00a0 my funny stories.\u00a0 You know, for when I ” someday do stand up comedy”.\u00a0 Yea…. someday.\u00a0\u00a0 And as a platform for selling my own writing. \u00a0 Yea.. THAT’s working! \u00a0 (Actually that might actually happen this year.. fingers crossed) <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But it does consume time.\u00a0 And to increase that time consumption by adding photos and making it fancy, I’m just not sure I can do it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Really the whole thing sometimes feels like just a diary.\u00a0 And a shameless cry for attention! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know…. we’ll see.
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I’ve been wanting to make changes to my blog.\u00a0 I want it to look different.\u00a0 But I can’t seem to figure out how to download a different template.\u00a0 Sadly, I’m not sure\u00a0 my webmaster can or knows how to educate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}